By Haleigh Miller, ’12, News Editor

Despite a full-time teaching schedule, Upper School History Teacher Dr. Jeremiah McCall is in the process of writing three books, as well as a lengthy article for an upcoming conference.

Ten years ago, McCall wrote his doctoral dissertation on the Roman Calvary, and says he “had absolutely no idea of ever writing anything again.”

However, he is now engaged in writing a book instructing teachers how to integrate video games into their teaching curricula, and was recently signed to write two additional books on ancient militaries.  Additionally, he is working on an article on simulation games to be submitted to a conference at the end of the month.

Of his book on video game integration, McCall said, “There are no guidelines for teachers who want to use simulation games in the class room. There’s just nowhere for them to go. It got to the point that I felt so strongly that this needed to be written – there’s no money in it – and it was just something that needed to be done.”  At this point, he has been working on the book for about two years, and said he hopes it will be published when he finishes it.

Although he hasn’t started working on them yet, Dr. McCall has also recently been signed to write two more books. He was surprised when Britain Sword Press approached him, explaining that “the commissioning editor must have found me through the website… and asked if I was the Jeremiah McCall who wrote the book on the Roman Calvary, and if so would [I] be interested in writing a few books on ancient military. My first thought was I’m really trying to get this video game book out, and my second thought was this isn’t something that happens very often when editors ask you to write a book.”

After considering his options, McCall decided to go ahead and accept the offer, and although he hasn’t started these two new books yet, they’re next up on his do-to list.

Photo by Allison Mesh, ’13.